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	Ernest J. Gaines
		Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933 on the River Lake plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, the setting for most of his fiction; he was the fifth generation in his family to be born there.
		Ernest Gaines brings to the novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have informed his previous, widely praised novels.
		Gaines} has built, with large and single-minded skills, a dignified and calamitous and perhaps finally comic pageant to summarize the history of an enormous, long waste in our past--the mindless, mutual hatred of white and fl, which, he implies, may slowly be healing.
	www.aalbc.com /authors/ernest.htm (0 words)

	Gaines' Fifteen Narrators: Narrative Styles and Storytelling Technique in A Gathering of Old Men
		Gaines has often said that Twain and Faulkner were the greatest influences on his style in adapting the oral storytelling tradition to the literary medium.
		Gaines uses a kind of repetition effectively in his writing to simulate oral narrative because repetition is such an integral part of the folk speech in South Louisiana.
		Gaines' background and his knowledge of the folk culture provide him with a framework for his narrative style and for his presentation of individual human beings and their interrelationships.
	www.louisianafolklife.org /LT/Articles_Essays/main_misc_gaines_old_men.html (2555 words)

	African American Registry: Ernest Gaines, a soulful writer!
		Gaines was terribly lonely for the people I had left in Louisiana spending much time in the library.
		Gaines dedicated the book to his aunt, "who did not walk a day in her life but who taught me the importance of standing." Gaines's honors and awards include nine honorary doctorates and the Humanist of the Year.
		Gaines is married to Dianne Sauley, a Miami lawyer.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1469/Ernest_Gaines_a_soulful_writer (623 words)

	Ernest Gaines
		Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933 on the River Lake plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, the setting for most of his fiction; he was the fifth generation in his family to be born there.
		Ernest Gaines brings to the novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have informed his previous, widely praised novels.
		Gaines} has built, with large and single-minded skills, a dignified and calamitous and perhaps finally comic pageant to summarize the history of an enormous, long waste in our past--the mindless, mutual hatred of white and fl, which, he implies, may slowly be healing.
	aalbc.com /authors/ernest.htm (972 words)

	PAL: Ernest J. Gaines (1933- )
		Gaines was born on January 15, 1933 in the River Lake Plantation near Oscar, Louisiana, in a small town called Pointe Coupee Parish (Babb 1).
		When Ernest and his parents moved from the projects, the new found feeling of comfort was “replaced by a feeling of isolation”, as Gaines was not allowed to associate with potential friends (Babb 2).
		Ernest Gaines, much like his model William Faulkner, focuses his fiction on the rural folk culture of the South with emphasis on Bayonne Louisiana and the perspective of ordinary fl residents who are often ignorant to the larger world (Byerman 52).
	web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/gaines.html (1377 words)

	Southern Author Ernest Gaines profiled by Southern Literary Review
		Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933 on the False River Plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, a hamlet in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, which is the setting of the majority of his fictional work.
		Gaines was the fifth generation in his family to be born there.
		Gaines did not visit a public library until the age of 16 because in the 1940’s it was against the law for fls to enter public libraries.
	www.southernlitreview.com /authors/ernest_gaines.htm (493 words)

	Vintage Books: About the Author
		The world into which Ernest James Gaines was born--on January 15, 1933--is essentially the world which he has distilled into the dense and complex world of his six novels and his stories.
		As Gaines has said: "Though the places in my stories and novels are imaginary ones, they are based pretty much on the place where I grew up and the surrounding areas where I worked, went to school, and traveled as a child.
		Gaines has steadily been recognized for his achievement as a master of the novel and short story.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/gaines/bio.html (0 words)

	Louisiana Foodways in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying
		The culture that Ernest Gaines presents in his novel, A Lesson Before Dying, is heavily influenced by a dependence on the land to fulfill essential needs.
		Gaines not only reveals the types of foods that this culture prepares and shares during meals and at gatherings, but clearly underlines the central significance of foodways as powerful symbols in this culture and in his novel.
		Ernest Gaines understands the vital use of food as symbols and of foodways as representative of an integral part of the culture with which he himself identifies.
	www.louisianafolklife.org /LT/Articles_Essays/main_misc_gaines_foodways.html (3326 words)

	Interactive Workshops -- In Search of the Novel
		Ernest James Gaines was born in 1933 on River Lake Plantation in Louisiana.
		Gaines' fiction deals exclusively with life in rural fl America, specifically in the fictional town of Bayonne, Louisiana.
		Gaines learned the art of storytelling firsthand in his home because it was filled with visitors who gossiped and told elaborate ghost stories and folk tales.
	www.learner.org /channel/workshops/isonovel/Pages/Gainespage.html (227 words)

	Life & Career
		Gaines depicts the strength and dignity of his fl characters in the face of numerous struggles: the dehumanizing and destructive effects of racism; the breakdown in personal relationships as a result of social pressures; and the choice between secured traditions and the sometimes radical measures necessary to bring about social change.
		Gaines is mellow with historical reflection, supple with wit, relaxed and expansive because he does not equate his people with failure." Gaines has been criticized by some, however, who feel his writing does not focus directly on problems facing fls.
		Gaines responds to Desruisseaux that he feels "too many fls have been writing to tell whites all about 'the problems,' instead of writing something that all people, including their own, could find interesting, could enjoy." Gaines has also remarked that more can be achieved than strictly writing novels of protest.
	www.princeton.edu /~howarth/557/gathering3.html (2570 words)

	LitKicks: Ernest Gaines' Emphatic Projection
		Gaines has won numerous awards, has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and recently retired from regular teaching at the University of Southwestern Louisiana at Lafayette.
		Professor Gaines presented an instructive and enjoyable lecture to a packed auditorium at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville on the night of November 8, 2005.
		Ernest Gaines' fascinating insights and anecdotes on the construction of this novel made this lecture a valuable learning experience.
	litkicks.com /BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=ErnestGainies (1220 words)

	L&C Chronicle - Ernest Gaines: A man of the word
		Berets are a Gaines trademark, and on this afternoon, he wore a dark green one.
		Gaines is a reserved man. At the time, he knew Harper only in passing and me not at all, and the conversation was slow, taut, and careful.
		Gaines has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and has been a Wallace Stegner fellow, a Guggehnheim fellow, and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellow.
	www.lclark.edu /dept/public/ernestgaines.html (1301 words)

	Author Ernest Gaines to speak on Nov. 8
		"Gaines is a writer’s writer by virtue of his stunning fidelity to the speech and experiences of the people.
		Gaines was the fifth generation in his family to be born on the River Lake plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish, La. His stories of rural Louisiana have garnered glowing reviews for their sensitive depictions of fls struggling for dignity in the face of obstacles.
		Gaines received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and was a Wallace Stegner fellow, a Guggenheim fellow, a John D. and Catherin T. MacArthur Foundation fellow.
	www.lclark.edu /cgi-bin/shownews.cgi?1004720640.2 (590 words)

	0-8071-2608-X PAPER - Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines: Conversations on the Writer's Craft, Edited by Marcia Gaudet and ...
		Ernest J. Gaines, the author of many acclaimed works of fiction, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Gathering of Old Men, was born in 1933 in the small south Louisiana town of Oscar.
		Gaines talks about a variety of topics, including the influence of other writers—among them Faulkner, Hemingway, and Mark Twain—on his style and the importance of oral tradition and folk culture to his writing.
		Gaines also comments on the craft of writing, his role as a teacher, the film versions of some of his books, his relationships with his agent and editors, and his work in progress.
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	Ernest J. Gaines Author - Tanya Bickley Enterprises
		Ernest J. Gaines was born on January 15, 1933 on the River Lake Plantation in Oscar, a hamlet in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional work.
		Ernest Gaines visited a public library for the first time at age 16.
		Professor Gaines is married to Dianne Saulney Gaines, an attorney.
	www.bickley.com /ernest_gaines.html (669 words)

	BRIEF BIO NOTE
		Ernest Gaines was born on January 15, 1933, in the small south Louisiana town of Oscar in Pointe Coupee Parish.
		Raised by his aunt, Gaines joined his mother and stepfather in Vallejo, California, at the age of fifteen because there was no high school available to him as an African American in rural Louisiana at that time.
		Gaines has created an array of characters, conflicts, and themes as rich in their variety and in their universality as any in American literature.
	www.louisiana.edu /Academic/LiberalArts/ENGL/Creative/Gaines.htm (0 words)

	NetForum - Messages In Topic: Ernest Gaines (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gaines also used passages from the book as examples to show his audience how specifically he worked through this novel and the steps he took in order to create.
		I found Gaines an amazing author with a real gift and capacity for writing as well as a teacher able to convey his points effectively and clearly, unlike some authors that I have come into contact with in the past.
		I didn’t really think the Ernest Gaines reading went along with the theme of the event but I am always excited to see authors come and read from their works.
	athena.english.vt.edu /cgi-bin/netforum/newwriters.htm/a/15--15.1 (759 words)

	An Introduction to the novels of Ernest Gaines (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This class is an introduction to the novels of Ernest Gaines.
		Gaines work will be critically examined from cultural, historical, social, and political perspectives.
		Specific attention will be given to the role of social protest, the use of vernacular, Gaines concept of "humanness," and representations of individualism and community.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~afam190b (580 words)

	Ernest Gaines Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
		Ernest Gaines occupies a unique space among today’s literary masters.
		Born on the lands around River Lake Plantation, near New Roads, Point Copuee Parish, Lousiana, Gaines has successfully translated the beauty and tragedy of the impoverished African-American communities of the Deep South into a series of acclaimed novels.
		Beginning in 1971 with the publication of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest Gaines has gained a reputation for his poetic style, his accurate representation of daily life among the inhabitants of those lands and bayous, and his determined struggle against the prevalent tides of racism.
	www.thelavinagency.com /college/ernestgaines.html (237 words)

	Ernest J. Gaines
		Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933 on the River Lake plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, the setting for most of his fiction; he was the fifth generation in his family to be born there.
		At the age of nine he was picking cotton in the plantation fields; the fl quarter's school held classes only five or six months a year.
		Gaines divides his time between San Francisco and Lafayette, Louisiana, where he is writer in residence at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/lesson/gaines.html (0 words)

	Chasing Ray - Mozart & Leadbelly by Ernest J. Gaines
		Gaines did not “meet” Miss Jane Pittman, or interview her, in Louisiana; he found her there, along with everything else he had missed so much, and needed to write about.
		The reason Gaines returned home specifically in 1963 is explained in another essay, “Mozart and Leadbelly.” In the summer of 1962, he had planned to earn some money and later join friends in Mexico, but then James Meredtith enrolled at the University of Mississippi, a move that commanded national attention and changed Gaines’ life forever.
		Gaines knows the city now, has come to know it well in the decades since his return to the state, and can rattle off a laundry list of the places that are necessary to return it to some former glory.
	www.chasingray.com /reviews/2006/09/mozart_leadbelly_by_ernest_j_g.html (1784 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Gathering of Old Men: Books: Ernest J. Gaines (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The setting in the book A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines happens to be in a small Louisiana farming community in the early 1900s when the conflict between white people and fl people was much greater.
		Ernest J. Gaines brings a 1970's Louisiana plantation to life in A Gathering of Old Men.
		Ernest J. Gaines cleverly intertwines the numerous characters, making their use of the local dialect an integral part of his story telling.
	www.amazon.ca /Gathering-Old-Men-Ernest-Gaines/dp/0679738908 (1306 words)

	Ernest Gaines - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ernest Gaines - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	Ernest Gaines’ latest book derailed by Katrina - BOOKS - MSNBC.com
		Gaines lives in rural Oscar, La., about 100 miles northwest of New Orleans, and for him, Katrina was little more than a heavy storm, knocking out electrical power for several hours.
		Gaines’ stories have focused on personal struggle rather than political themes, and he sees Katrina in a similar way.
		For generations, the Gaines family has lived in Oscar, and, thanks to his success as a writer, Ernest Gaines now owns some of the land where he picked cotton as a boy.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9428533 (694 words)

	Ernest Gaines finds solace in old parish: 4/22/01
		On weekends, Ernest J. Gaines, one of the nation's most acclaimed authors, escapes Lafayette and returns to Pointe Coupee Parish, where he was born.
		Gaines is candid about his boyhood and rural past.
		Like a recurring dream, Gaines goes back to the River Lake plantation and to the banks of the False River, an oxbow lake left behind years ago when the Mississippi River changed course about 20 miles north of Baton Rouge.
	www.s-t.com /daily/04-01/04-22-01/e07ae161.htm (1362 words)

	Biography of Ernest Holmes - Founder of Religious Science
		Ernest Holmes was born in 1887 on a small Maine farm, the youngest of nine sons.
		Ernest published his first book, "Creative Mind," in 1919, followed shortly after by another volume entitled "Creative Mind and Success." He continued his studies, and lectured to growing crowds in California and Eastern cities.
		Ernest Holmes: His Life and Times, written by his brother Fenwicke Holmes, one of our most astute philosophical scholars, presents a spiritual insight into the potential and possibilities of man for peace of mind in today's stressful times.
	ernestholmes.wwwhubs.com (0 words)

	ernest j gaines
		Ernest J. Gaines was born on January 15th, 1933 on River Lake Plantation in Oscar, Louisiana, which was a quiet hamlet in obscure Pointe Coupee Parish.
		I suppose that it should not be a big surprise that Gaines cares about the old traditions and writes about racial conflict because he experienced it firsthand and the ways that he used to live and breathe everyday may have propelled him into becoming a great African American author.
		Ernest J. Gaines has written many books, the most famous of which are The Autobiography of Miss.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0215102/ernest_j_gaines.htm (548 words)

	Ernest J. Gaines: Louisiana Stories (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Miss Jane is only one of many characters created by Ernest Gaines in his novels and short stories.
		Gaines moved away from the plantation as a boy, settling in California.
		But Ernest Gaines has given them a voice, both the living and the dead.
	www.lpb.org /programs/gaines/excerpt.html (422 words)

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